However, these technologies introduce many new and complex monitoring challenges. Not least, how to visualize dynamic topologies, account for the ephemeral nature and containers, and quickly pinpoint performance problems across modern application stacks comprising new microservices and existing back-end processing systems.

This eBook lays out the monitoring challenges confronting todays DevOps engineers, describing approaches to metric collection and visualization, the classes of modern monitoring, and importantly - how what methods work to tame complexity and ensure these dynamic application environments deliver on their promise.